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that starts with an economy that works for everybody. throughout my campaign and throughout many of your campaigns we talked about this bedrock notion that our economy succeeds and our economy grows when everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is getting a fair shake, and everybody is playing by the same rules. we have an economy in which we're growing a vibrant middle class, that it grows from the middle out and the bottom up, not from the top down. over the next four years as i work with the caucus and every caucus, the question i will ask myself on every item, every issue is this helping to make sure that everybody has a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules. i believe that as a growth agenda. not just equity agenda. not just a fairness agenda. that is a growth agenda. that is when we have grown fastest. that means that what you'll hear from me next week, i'm going to be talking about making sure that we're focused on job creation here in the united states of america. it me
that starts with an economy that works for everybody. throughout my campaign and throughout many of your campaigns we talked about this bedrock notion that our economy succeeds and our economy grows when everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is getting a fair shake, and everybody is playing by the same rules. we have an economy in which we're growing a vibrant middle class, that it grows from the middle out and the bottom up, not from the top down. over the next four years as i work...
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it's a potentially like very hard blur to the economy. and i think as difficult as the political environment is now, imagine if we went back into a recession and ma'am how it would 145r7en up the edges of the deba debate. it would be brewle it will for everybody. so i don't think sequestration will happen. i think we're just following the exact same script we did for the fiscal cliff. everybody right now i think the democrats and republicans are basically in agreement, they want to put it off, but they want to blame the other party for putting it it off. and i think that's the dynamic that's happening right now. >> if we're following that script, that was not a script that ultimately played well for house republicans. >> i agree, it didn't play well, but it's not a big victory for the democrats. >> i don't disagree, but i think the general public -- the numbers are pretty bad. >> we also did this -- people forget this, but it also happened in senior president bush and helped lead to the budget act of the andrews air force base that actual
it's a potentially like very hard blur to the economy. and i think as difficult as the political environment is now, imagine if we went back into a recession and ma'am how it would 145r7en up the edges of the deba debate. it would be brewle it will for everybody. so i don't think sequestration will happen. i think we're just following the exact same script we did for the fiscal cliff. everybody right now i think the democrats and republicans are basically in agreement, they want to put it off,...
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the reason food stamp rolls we want up is because the economy went so far down, and so many people lost their jobs and incomes. unfortunately, much of our safety net hasn't been working in that counter way. yes, the fact that calories are very cheap is a problem that this book deals with very effectively, but the issue of food stamps as a safety net program has to be one that we protect. >> in terms of the quote that we let in from the book, the notion that those who are on food stamps are the ones that could probably make the most effective argument for food stamps, but they are literally scraping by, and so the dialogue is missing those voices, and has been fairly unmanufacturetive at best. >> i think that's the key thing to focus on. the fact that people involved here, particularly children, are not only vulnerable, but they are voiceless, right, because this is a solvable problem. we're not talking about syria or sudan or sequestration. we're talking about the wealthiest, most abundant country in the world. this is a solvable problem, but there's been a lack of political will. hopef
the reason food stamp rolls we want up is because the economy went so far down, and so many people lost their jobs and incomes. unfortunately, much of our safety net hasn't been working in that counter way. yes, the fact that calories are very cheap is a problem that this book deals with very effectively, but the issue of food stamps as a safety net program has to be one that we protect. >> in terms of the quote that we let in from the book, the notion that those who are on food stamps...
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economy is perhaps one bill too far. glen, we talk a lot about the tunnel that ends in heart break that the gop may or may not be hurdling down, but these votes lately on the hill seem to be representative of the -- of really the skism within the party. mitch mcconnell is perhaps in the most interesting i think straddle position, if you can call it that, as the two pieces of earth separate and he, in fact, may at some point be split in two because he is up for re-election in 2014, and, yet, he has been tasked with being the guy to get things through and prevent sort of catastrophe from befalling the country. >> well, what you are going to see, increasingly, and you'll see this in the house side too are leaders doing these really tactical little maneuvers that they love to do. i was in the claim br when hillary clinton and barack obama -- there was some -- remember that iraq war resolution vote where each waited for the other to vote before -- they were the last two lingering in the chamber and deciding to vote. you see t
economy is perhaps one bill too far. glen, we talk a lot about the tunnel that ends in heart break that the gop may or may not be hurdling down, but these votes lately on the hill seem to be representative of the -- of really the skism within the party. mitch mcconnell is perhaps in the most interesting i think straddle position, if you can call it that, as the two pieces of earth separate and he, in fact, may at some point be split in two because he is up for re-election in 2014, and, yet, he...
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defense spending has been one of the drivers of the economy. why that logic? it's called weaponized p. doesn't prevail down the road? i'm sure it's not very hard to figure out why that is. i mean, those are the parts of the government that they're trying to destroy. >> the other part is i think we have a tend si to view the fights that we're having with the budget over fights that are between austerity on one hand, but that's not the way the political coalitions work out. if you are consistent on it, you shouldn't want any tax hikes either, right? the fight is over people's policies. people have policies that have priorities because the intl groups and collisions thief assembled politically because of their idealogical principles, right, who these things will benefit, it and then they mask them in the language of what is cyclically appropriate or inappropriate, right? >> even on sequestration they've changed their mind. now sequestration, we might do it. >> i love when they bring this up during the hagel hearing and they talk about sequestration, and they go t
defense spending has been one of the drivers of the economy. why that logic? it's called weaponized p. doesn't prevail down the road? i'm sure it's not very hard to figure out why that is. i mean, those are the parts of the government that they're trying to destroy. >> the other part is i think we have a tend si to view the fights that we're having with the budget over fights that are between austerity on one hand, but that's not the way the political coalitions work out. if you are...